As Phobia, Pink, Monty and Stevie already know, Mrs. OnTheWarpath58 lost her job back in September. Needless to say, things have been rough lately, between this and her father having his 3rd bypass surgery and also having a pacemaker installed in December.

It's never a good time to lose a job, but it's extremely difficult to find work late in a calendar year. We're hoping that 2008 brings about an opportunity for her, and I'm hoping someone out there might be able to get her in touch with someone who appreciates her talents.

Her background is in the Commercial Construction industry, in Business Development. She's been in the industry since the early '90's, and has worked on/landed some monster construction jobs in the Midwest, including the Scottrade Center, EJ Dome, Ameristar Casino, and numerous other hospitals, hotels, museums, etc.

If anyone knows of someone at J.E. Dunn, Black and Veatch, or another General Contractor, please PM me.

While the majority of her experience is in the Construction industry, she's also held positions as VP of Sales and Marketing for a printing/document company, and is excellent at expanding sales and increasing business/revenue.

Sorry to hear this. Sounds like your wife's luck with jobs is as bad as my wife's. Some of her greatest hits include working for a company that was shut down by the government because the executives were criminals - not only did she lose her job, but she also never got paid for the last two weeks she worked there. Another was when we returned from our honeymoon to a FedEx package on the porch containing a letter saying that her and her entire department had been laid off. The following Tuesday was 9/11.

Holy crap, let us know is we can help anyway we can, we got to be good for a couple free meals, and couple pairs of ears and / or at least a night of reprieve to let the hair down and stress out of a little while.

Unfortunately that is about all JR and I can do. Other than send the well wishes of course.

They actually had the balls to look her in the eye and say, "this isn't due to performance, you've done everything we've asked of you and more. But we need to cut overhead so we can pay out bonuses to the shareholders."

It took them some balls to be honest.
I wish the best for you and your family.
These are bad times for all. This is the way of world these days and it's frightening.
I worry for our kids getting their foot in the door in a age where every entry level position is being outsourced to India or China etc.. and every company is only concerned about the bottom line.